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Issue: Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 1978

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Publisher: Flag

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

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Indicia Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston

On Sale Date: 1978

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Pages: 132

ISBN: 0030428769

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Price: $1.95 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
2 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: Reprints 124 daily newspaper comics strips originally published between January 3rd and July 2nd 1977.

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.

Dimensions of second printing are 5⅛” × 7⅞”. List of “Doonesbury books by G. B. Trudeau” ends with “Stalking the Perfect Tan.”

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Format

Publication Type: Trade Paperback

Color: color cover; black & white interior

Dimensions: mass market paperback (5⅛” × 7⅞”, then 6⅛” × 8¼”)

Paper Stock: cardstock cover; newsprint interior

Binding: squarebound; trade paperback

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Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [First Printing]

Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Fourth Printing]

Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Second Printing]

Stalking the Perfect Tan (A Doonesbury Book) #[nn] [Sixth Printing]

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Content Items (2 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Zonker Harris; Cornell

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

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Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Doonesbury

Character(s): Lacey Davenport; Dick Davenport; Virginia "Ginny" Slade; Joanie Caucus; Clyde; Rick Redfern; Uncle Duke; Honey Huan; Jimmy Thudpucker; Jenny Thudpucker (first appearance); Barney Perkins (first appearance); Weinburger (first appearance); Duane Delacourt (first appearance); Woodrow; Cornell (first appearance)

Synopsis: New Congresswoman Lacey Davenport begins her term in Washington, D.C. and so does President Jimmy Carter; Joanie moves in with Rick, who starts writing at People magazine; The White House appoints a secretary of symbolism, Duane Delacourt; Henry Kissinger takes a job teaching political science; The Thudpuckers have a baby; Joanie graduates from law school and takes a job working on Lacey's Ethics Committee; Zonker returns to the cocoa butter tanning circuit; Uncle Duke gets replaced as U.S. Ambassador to China.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: From Doonesbury (Universal Press Syndicate) 1977-01-03 - 1977-06-02.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 124

Notes: Garry Trudeau acknowledged employing Don Carlton as inker of Doonesbury (Alter 1990). Carlton’s association with Trudeau began in the early 1970s, and his responsibilities grew to include lettering of the strip. The association endured for decades (Walker 2010, 30–31).
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References:

Alter, Jonathan. 1990. “Inside Doonesbury’s Brain.” Newsweek. October 15, 1990. Quoted in Brian Walker, Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).

Walker, Brian. 2010. Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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